Ernest G. Cole Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Patricia Cooper - pcooper@peaknet.net

Surname: COLE
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

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  ERNEST G. COLE, a prominent merchant and business man of Hamp-
ton, who has been postmaster here since 1901, was born in this town, 
June 16 ,1869, a son of William G. and Susan L. (Page) Cole. The Cole 
family is one of the oldest in this section; William G. Cole, father of 
our subject, was a tanner and currier doing business in Portsmouth, N. 
H., and Saco, Me. He was twice married :first to Hannah Brooks of 
Eliot, of which union  there were three children: Everett S., deceased; 
Myron W ., deceased, and Abbie Isabelle, who is the wife of S. Albert 
Shaw, of Hampton. By his

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second marriage to Susan L. Page of Hampton, he had three children: 
Anna M., who graduated from Newburyport high school and Mt. Holyoke 
College and who for the last twenty years has followed the profession 
of teacher at Hampton Academy and Berwick Academy ; Ernest G.; and 
Hattie L., who is now deceased. Both parents of our subject are now 
deceased.
  Ernest G. Cole after attending the common schools entered Hampton
Academy in 1887, being a member of the first class to graduate from the
institution. Subsequently, in 1891, he graduated from New Hampshire 
College, now at Durham, but then a part of Dartmouth. He then became a 
partner firm of J. A. Lane & Co., proprietors of a general store at 
Hampton, and was thus occupied for six years. At the end of that time 
he sold out to Mr. Lane and bought out the J. W. Mason Co.'s general 
store, operating it under the style of E. G. Cole & Co. In 1909 it was 
incorporated as the E. G. Cole Company, Mr. Cole being president and 
treasurer. The concern does a very large business and operates a branch 
store at Hampton Beach.
   The other members of the company ,are William Brown, manager, and Mary
E. Craig, secretary and bookkeeper. Mr. Cole was appointed postmaster 
of Hampton. in l901 and has two rual routes under his supervision, 
employing three mall clerks. He has been Justice of the peace for the 
last ten years and notary public fourteen years. He is also treasarer 
of the Hampton Water Works Company. A republican in politics- he servcd 
on the town commission for years.
  Mr. Cole married Caroline E. Jones of Rochester, N. H., a daughter of
Charles A. and Myria (Noyes) Jones, and they have one child, Ernestine.
Mr. Cole belongs to all three branches of the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows; also to Star in the East Lodge; A. F. & A. M. at Exeter, the 
Chapter and Council at Exeter, the Commandery at PortSmouth, the 
Eastern Star at Exeter, the Royal Arcanum at Exeter and the Junior 
Order of American Mechanics. He and his wife are members of the 
Congregational church. He has been superintendent of the Sunday school 
for the last ten year's and clerk of the Congregational Society for 
twenty years. Mr. Cole belongs to Eastern Star Lodge at Exeter.

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